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Afrikaner soul searching even extends to such a holy of holies as the Day of the Covenant, the annual Dec. 16 commemoration that marks the Afrikaner victory over the Zulus in the 1838 Battle of Blood River. Now that De Klerk is calling for the races to live together in one nation, some Afrikaners feel a national holiday glorifying the white man's victory over the black man is more inappropriate than ever...
...Even a nation accustomed for some time to meager supplies and long lines has been stunned by the utter disappearance of milk, meat, produce and even bread. Some stores have taken to closing early in the day for lack of anything to sell. To halt worsening shortages, Leningrad took the dramatic step of introducing rationing of key staples last week. Moscow is also debating emergency measures. The Supreme Soviet has given Gorbachev until the end of this week to come up with a plan to halt shortages in major industrial areas. Addressing a meeting of the Moscow City Communist Party...
Germans acted out of a mixture of motives: simple generosity, gratitude to Gorbachev, even a touch of guilt -- German CARE, a descendant of the postwar American relief program, addressed its shipments to cities like Kiev and Smolensk that had suffered most from Hitler's aggression during World War II. They also are worried that unless the food crisis is brought under control, Western Europe will face a flood of Soviet refugees. Nations along the Soviet border from Scandinavia to Czechoslovakia are bracing for that possibility. Fearing instability, Poland last week even decided to beef up its troop deployments along...
While governments around the world have rallied to join George Bush's anti- Saddam coalition, popular support for military involvement in the gulf is shallow even among some of America's staunchest allies. For other countries tangled in the alliance, war is a minority, potentially untenable proposition...
Britain remains outwardly the most committed European member of the coalition. In mid-November a poll for the Times of London showed 62% of those surveyed backing the use of U.S. and British troops against Iraq if Saddam Hussein refuses to leave Kuwait. Even the opposition Labour Party has consistently backed the government's gulf policy. However, in spite of current levels of support, pollsters believe public approval will decline dramatically as casualties mount...